The first has been awarded to the Isolux-Soma Consortium. It involves the 4-6 laning of 133 km of national highways of Gujarat/Maharashtra Border-Surat-Hazira Port. The total project cost is Rs 1,509 crore. The agreement involves a grant of Rs 556 crore to the concessionaire and the concession period is 19 years, including a 30-month construction period. In addition, NHAI has awarded the 4-laning of the Pune-Solapur section of NH-9 in Maharashtra on BOT basis. The concessionaire for the project is Navinya Buildcon and Atlantia SPA. The length of the project is about 110 km and the total project cost is Rs 1,110 crore. The agreement involves a grant of Rs 299 crore. The concession period is 21 years, including 910 days for construction. The project will have bridges, fly-overs, vehicular under passes, pedestrians under passes, truck lay-byes etc. There will be a 124 km long service road on both sides of the project. Join discussion...

India awarded five road projects for 109.12 billion rupees ($2.7 billion) on Friday to private companies, including Larsen & Toubro and a consortia of Deutsche Bank and Malaysia's IJM Corp Berhad, a senior government official said. Join discussion...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the bidding process of the Rs1,460 crore Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway four-lane project in Andhra Pradesh (AP), further delaying the opening of financial bids for the project. Join discussion...

Major companies that did not take part in the final stages of bidding include Maytas Infra, Gammon Infrastructure, GMR Infra, Punj Lloyd, Nagarjuna Construction Company and Soma Enterprises, industry sources said. Join discussion...